In conversations with our agency’s clients these past couple of weeks, each one has asked me how the coronavirus affects publishing. We, of course, don’t know the long-term affect. But I thought I’d update you all on what’s happened so …
Publishing Success: Find the Right Idea
Today I want to take a look at the part of the publishing process that kickstarts your publishing success or dooms you not to succeed. This step might seem obvious, yet many a writer makes a misstep from the get-go: …
What Book Category Your Manuscript Fits in and Why You Should Care
Having recently decided not to represent a number of writers for the same reason, I’m reminded how important it is to know what book category or genre a manuscript belongs in. Or as we talk about it in publishing: Where …
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The Laugh-Cry Formula for Writing
Long ago and far away, I was employed by a non-profit that had developed a large publications department. We produced everything imaginable in print, including books for all age groups and a magazine with millions of readers. While working there, …
To Rewrite or Not to Rewrite
This week three of my clients are rewriting their entire manuscripts, each at the behest of a publishing house editor who has expressed serious interest in the project. That means three of my clients faced the dilemma: To rewrite or …
Favorite Book of 2019
As has become my tradition, at the beginning of each new year, I like to reflect on the books I’ve read in the year that’s just closed out (not necessarily books published in that year) and call out my favorite …
Favorite Children’s Christmas Books
Christmas brings out the child in each of us in ways no other holiday does. Most of us retain happy childhood memories of this special, celebratory season. Some of those memories are nestled inside favorite children’s Christmas books. You know, …
Books into Movies Redux
A year ago, I wrote a blog post about my ventures of turning books into movies. I stumbled across that post a few weeks ago and realized a lot has happened and an update might be offer more insight into …
Pre-Publishing: Developing the Five P’s
When a writer is in the pre-publishing phase of his or her writing career, that’s the perfect time to focus on developing five P’s:
- Perseverance
- Patience
- Personality
- Pupil for life
- Professional
Perseverance
Rachel’s blog post from earlier this week contained …
The Importance of Knowing Your Reader
Several years ago, I taught a workshop on the importance of knowing your reader. The attendees were multi-book published authors. So I posed this question to a few, random writers in the audience to answer aloud: Who is your reader?…